–> Arghh…and again my beautiful setup was smashed by the Ubuntu 11.10 upgrade today. I hate it when they do that. And I hate Unity. The Canonical people just don’t see that Unity is just not that userfriendly. Here’s how to get rid of it quickly:
First log in (preferrably trough ssh) and become root.
Then do
apt-get install gnome-panel
If you haven’t logged out of unity, do it now.
In the login screen click on the ‘gear’ image next to your name. There select gnome classic.
Then log in. Voila, you have gnome back. I agree, it’s not gnome 2 but gnome 3 so it does take some getting used to aswell. But it’s much much better than Unity in my humble opinion 
Enjoy !
